Now I thought I was making an air duct for the side of a race car, but it appears that instead, I’ve been making some wierd piece of plastic sixties furnatrue. A bright yellow Chaise for Chrstine Keeeler perhaps?
Well you can tell from this photo that I finally managed to complete the mould for the [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2009
Yeah Baby!
Resin, Resin Everywhere!
Not much to say today except I got a couple of layers of gelcoat and CSM laid up on the buck for the side pod ducts, as you can see the under-layer of gel is orange, and (as you can’t see ) the top layer is canary yellow. the white section in the middle is [...]
Yet More Mouldings
Many hours today again spent breathing styrene… which I have to say I rather like. :-)
Firstly we made another floor in the right hand side mould. This time, instead of using ply as the longitudinal stiffeners we hadded two extra layers of CSM, and some 3mm coremat, before finishing off with Roven Wovings.
So there followed the [...]
New Floor Mk1
So having made a mould, it was time to make a floor. The plan was gelcoat,tissue, 1 layer of chopped strand mat, reinforcing strips of 6mm ply, and then a final layer of woven rovings. All laid up with polyester resin. For the edge of the floor which will be unsupported the plan is [...]
New Side Pod Floors
It was apparent, well blatantly obvious really given the overheating problems that ruined my 2009 season, that managing the airflow into and out of the radiators is of crucial importance. When we originally moved to radiators to the sides pods back in last December we simply cut holes in the existing body work, and put [...]